PDF Properties
Using a custom set of XML tags inside your HTML, you can insert both custom metadata as well as instructions for how the PDF would be viewed in a PDF viewer application (subject of course to that application supporting those features).
Options
You use the (optional) tag <pdfproperties> and within that tag you
can insert <metainfo> and <pdfpreferences>
sections as shown in the instructions below. Within the
<metainfo> tag, you can add <prop> tags
with @name, @value attribute pairs with the data you wish
to store in the PDF metadata. Anything without one of the recognized, standard PDF
names (author, title, subject,
creator, keywords) are stored in custom metadata in
the PDF.
The <pdfpreferences> section allows you to insert one or more
<pref> tags with specific @name,
@value pairs that control the way the resulting PDF is displayed
with a viewer that supports standard PDF view attributes. The support
name, @value pairs are listed below and grouped into
all the available categories:
General PDF Options
These options let you control some general information about the generated PDF.
bookmarks - sets whether PDF bookmarks are generated or not. The default
is "false" for Cloudformatter. You can set @value to "true" if you want
bookmarks in PDF. Note that bookmarks are only generated for interpreted
hierarchical information. All h1 elements and there following
h2 elements and so on. Skipping levels will break the sequence and
the bookmarks will not be correct.
pdf-version - sets the PDF version number. The default is version 1.5
for Cloudformatter but you set @value to values like "1.3", "1.4",
"1.6" or "1.7" if you wish to change the version. Be aware thar some other features
could be disabled by setting the version too low.
compress - sets whether the PDF is compressed or not. The default is
"true" for Cloudformatter. You can set @value to "false" if you want
uncompressed PDF.
linearize - sets whether the PDF is linearized or not. The default is
"false" for Cloudformatter. You can set @value to "true" if you want to
optimize a long PDF for web view.
PDF View Options
These options let you control how the PDF when opened appears to the end user.
view-mode - Choose from one of the following:
auto- If there are bookmarks in the document, the bookmarks pane is displayed. Otherwise, all auxiliary panes are hidden.show-none- All auxiliary panes are hidden.show-bookmarks- The bookmarks pane is displayed.show-thumbnails- The thumbnails pane is displayed.full-screen- The document is displayed in full screen-mode.
initial-zoom - Choose from one of the following:
auto- Page scaling is not specified.fit- The page is scaled to fit completely into the view port.fit-width- The page is scaled so that its width matches the width of the view port.fit-height- The page is scaled so that its height matches the height of the view port.###or####%- The page is scaled by the number or percentage specified.
page-layout - Choose from one of the following:
auto- Uses settings of viewer application.single-page- Displays one page at a time.continuous- Displays pages continuously in one column.two-columns-left- Displays pages continuously in two columns, with odd-numbered pages to the left.two-columns-right- Displays pages continuously in two columns, with odd-numbered pages to the right.two-pages-left- Displays pages in two columns, by two pages at a time, with odd-numbered pages to the left.two-pages-right- Displays pages in two columns, by two pages at a time, with odd-numbered pages to the right.
viewer-preferences - A comma separated list of the following
possibilities:
hide-toolbar- Hides the viewer application's tool bars when the document is active.hide-menubar- Hides the viewer application's menu bar when the document is active.hide-window-ui- Hides user interface elements in the document's window (such as scroll bars and navigation controls), leaving only the document's contents displayed.fit-window- Resizes the document's window to fit the size of the first displayed page.center-window- Positions the document's window in the center of the screen.display-document-title- Controls whether the window's title bar displays the document title taken from the "title" metadata field.
PDF Security
These options allow you to specify owner and user security in the PDF output. User-level security can inject a password to be used to open the PDF, while owner-level security can control what can be done with the PDF (like printing it or copying the data from it).
userpassword - Sets the user password that must be entered to view the
PDF. There are no options, the @value passed is the password to be
used.
ownerpassword - Sets the owner password that must be entered to enable
advanced processing of the PDF. There are no options, the @value passed
is the password to be used. An ownerpassword is used to lock down certain privledges
that an owner will grant to a recipient of the PDF. Without the owner password,
recipients can be restricted from certain things. By default they are restricted
from everything, and you can then specify what additional things you allow by using
userpriviledges.
userpriviledges - A comma separated list of the following
possibilities:
print- Enables printing the document.modify- Enables editing the document.copy- Enables copying text and images from the document to the clipboard.annotate- Enables adding notations to the document and changing the field values.
PDF Pre-Press Options
These allow you to specify crop marks, bleeds and registration marks to be applied to the PDF.
crop-offset - specify offsets from the meaningful content on the page to
the edges of the physical media (/MediaBox entry in the PDF page dictionary). Its
value is a series of 1 to 4 length specifiers that set offsets from the edges of the
page area to the corresponding edges of the /MediaBox. Rules for expanding the value
are the same as for the padding property in CSS.
bleed - specify the bleeds — an extra space around the page area into
which the contents of the page may protrude (/BleedBox entry in the PDF page
dictionary). Its value is a series of 1 to 4 length specifiers that set offsets from
the edges of the page area to the corresponding edges of the /BleedBox. Rules for
expanding the value are the same as for the padding property in CSS.
crop-mark-width - defines line width for the crop marks, setting it to 0
disables drawing of crop marks.
bleed-mark-width - defines line width for the bleed marks, setting it to
0 disables drawing of bleed marks.
printer-mark - specify additional SVG images to be drawn in the offset
area surrounding the page (specified by crop-offset and bleed parameters). Printer
marks are clipped to the outside of the bleed rectangle. The @value is
a URL to an SVG you have. This sample has two URLs (one for a colorbar and one for a
registration mark) you can also use if you like.
The following code is what is behind this page for producing the PDF. Of course, you would only see the things supported by your PDF viewer you use. If you wish to see them all in action, then use "download" and Adobe Reader to view the PDF.
Recent changes in some browsers will not treat this XML as XML. Instead it tries (incorrectly) to not close tags. For best results, be sure to use open and close tags and not a self-closing tag.
<pdfproperties style="display:none;">
<metainfo>
<prop name="author" value="Xportability LLC"></prop>
<prop name="title"
value="Xportability Cloudformatter: Showing Custom
PDF Properties"></prop>
<prop name="subject" value="A Cloudformatter Document"></prop>
<prop name="creator" value="css2pdf@cloudformatter.com"></prop>
<prop name="keywords" value="CSS, PDF, Cloudformatter"></prop>
<prop name="custom1" value="value1"></prop>
<prop name="custom2" value="value2"></prop>
<prop name="custom3" value="value3"></prop>
<prop name="custom4" value="value4"></prop>
</metainfo>
<pdfpreferences>
<pref name="bookmarks" value="true"></pref>
<pref name="pdf-version" value="1.6"></pref>
<pref name="view-mode" value="auto"></pref>
<pref name="initial-zoom" value="fit-height"></pref>
<pref name="page-layout" value="two-columns-left"></pref>
<pref name="viewer-preferences" value="display-document-title"></pref>
<pref name="crop-offset" value="0.5in"></pref>
<pref name="crop-mark-width" value="1px"></pref>
<pref name="printer-mark"
value="http://www.cloudformatter.com/Resources/Images/registration.svg"></pref>
<pref name="printer-mark"
value="http://www.cloudformatter.com/Resources/Images/colorbar.svg"></pref>
</pdfpreferences>
</pdfproperties>
Sample Output H2
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Sample Output H3
Consetetur dolor et hendrerit et option diam dolore vero exerci aliquyam consetetur accusam et sed. Vulputate dolor augue tempor sanctus lorem vulputate diam. Magna dolore praesent gubergren. Eos sea dolore sed sadipscing nisl clita nihil at no laoreet stet dolore stet eos nonumy. Et sed sed rebum vero accusam et est vel veniam amet elitr labore duo no consequat praesent sit. Clita sed sed. Amet diam eos tempor erat mazim. Diam sed nibh gubergren kasd hendrerit dolor sed ea eirmod sit takimata ad sed dolores dignissim diam feugait.
Sit consetetur gubergren voluptua sadipscing delenit ut sit ut aliquip illum sed erat sed adipiscing. Ipsum at vero duo duis possim takimata blandit vel lorem nulla ea diam accusam et amet. Erat ea nobis. Diam et illum nulla est lorem te esse lorem voluptua labore et. Nam lorem dolore rebum duis facilisis invidunt hendrerit vulputate diam diam ipsum et lorem tempor.
Sample Output H4
Sit stet et. Amet te voluptua sadipscing consetetur sit eum. Et facilisis stet exerci doming eu nisl euismod labore ut lorem minim consetetur imperdiet at at eos volutpat. Eos lorem sed voluptua no no dolor vero. Nostrud possim soluta sadipscing takimata diam sadipscing autem ipsum. Hendrerit hendrerit dolor gubergren gubergren et no. Accusam et labore lobortis justo sadipscing sit esse ea takimata sit kasd.
Accusam rebum justo duis sit veniam diam duo ipsum lorem in euismod sed aliquyam possim diam lorem gubergren sit. Quis feugiat justo sanctus volutpat sadipscing hendrerit magna. Diam takimata gubergren rebum feugiat blandit in in gubergren ipsum luptatum sit. Magna ipsum et voluptua magna est et voluptua ut elitr. In et clita amet stet sed sea illum. Accusam amet hendrerit sed ipsum. Eum dolor eos dolore clita justo dolor no ipsum ut diam vel. Tempor diam eirmod dolor rebum duis et amet takimata sadipscing augue at diam dolor voluptua elit no. Eirmod kasd amet consetetur dolore vero.
Sample Output H4
Dolor ipsum vero rebum. Eos et erat dolor soluta ut sed tincidunt. Nulla ea hendrerit ut qui vulputate accusam sanctus justo sadipscing ut et dolor consectetuer clita. Et tation amet labore et et elitr sadipscing. Diam no kasd sit hendrerit dolore diam. Te nisl dignissim esse eos no et sea invidunt congue rebum aliquyam est accusam et velit lorem aliquyam. Sed in invidunt ut et. Voluptua dolor aliquyam kasd sanctus diam sed consetetur suscipit et aliquyam hendrerit lorem.
No voluptua takimata sadipscing erat stet iriure ut voluptua. Sit sit vero lorem eum accumsan dolor ipsum. Duis nibh nonumy ipsum stet consequat erat ut praesent sed lorem te labore autem. Gubergren erat erat dolor sadipscing ut amet sed est ipsum quis eleifend eirmod sit stet soluta. Clita augue lorem et et sed diam ullamcorper facilisis diam sed at et ipsum nulla feugiat. Nonumy at consetetur duo est vero dolor nobis ut amet labore accusam lorem nonumy liber consetetur nisl.
Sample Output H3
Erat tempor tempor facer et sed vel takimata justo. Praesent est erat duo lobortis sea. Suscipit autem takimata esse vero nonumy sanctus et sanctus dolores vero eirmod in sit sit duis at invidunt clita. Ipsum iriure nonummy dignissim ipsum takimata eum vel nonumy elitr invidunt. Magna erat volutpat vero gubergren dolores voluptua dolor commodo nisl ea accumsan no justo et at. Eos ipsum luptatum dolore ut commodo et nonumy stet ipsum amet in hendrerit consetetur diam amet sit takimata accusam. Ullamcorper invidunt no aliquyam ea est vel sed ipsum dolore dolores at et nobis. Hendrerit aliquam ea nulla et suscipit ex diam rebum sanctus. Gubergren at wisi euismod eros stet kasd ea sadipscing amet consetetur consequat feugiat erat et eirmod.
Ut elitr aliquam tempor sed sadipscing congue dolor nihil est. Sanctus labore amet vero voluptua. Et feugiat sit. Aliquam stet in no labore vel duis duo sea sit dolores dolor ea sed rebum sit et duo. Diam magna ea sanctus tation tempor amet ipsum kasd odio ut sit. Nonumy hendrerit eos erat et facilisis sadipscing eu rebum. Velit no diam aliquam illum duo kasd gubergren eos ut ipsum justo rebum eos diam erat sanctus molestie autem. Ipsum lorem sit. Clita gubergren veniam consequat dolor.
Sample Output H4
Feugait stet velit consetetur sed est delenit et magna vel erat consequat et. Hendrerit at nostrud nisl eirmod et diam est voluptua. Invidunt clita nobis consetetur. Accusam no no wisi nonumy sed voluptua. Nihil facilisi quod elitr et enim. Dolor ipsum aliquyam magna et labore sanctus rebum rebum lorem sit et et. At consequat sit in at at diam. Ut et eirmod labore ut kasd rebum consetetur magna consetetur in vero ut. Dolore est stet velit dolore amet consetetur kasd consequat est ut sanctus.
Est odio elitr. Gubergren lorem ex gubergren. Velit illum consetetur lorem. Ut odio diam sit blandit vero lorem et duo amet dolor et tempor vero sanctus nulla eos amet. Sadipscing eirmod sed sit est magna qui clita et sea consectetuer sanctus. Clita vero nam. No nonumy ullamcorper consetetur duo. Lorem sed tation sed eos facilisis aliquam in at accumsan justo.
Sample Output H4
Erat et sed consequat rebum aliquyam magna sea ex nonummy no dolor ipsum esse id ea sadipscing. Ad at ea vero sea dolores invidunt feugiat. Ut justo takimata amet justo sanctus consetetur clita ut sit sea in rebum stet option amet. Ipsum accumsan lorem consetetur sed justo et et invidunt ea duis est. Eum quis sit vel. Nonumy nihil magna sed sed nostrud vero duo. Labore et amet. Amet vero dolore ea magna sadipscing at takimata amet eos consequat. Ullamcorper erat sea autem. Euismod vero esse et feugait.
Sed sed rebum et consetetur ut lorem amet vero elitr delenit dolore clita at gubergren sea iusto. Nonumy et dolore stet vero et dolores et kasd. Tation rebum lorem gubergren ut ex feugiat hendrerit congue est sit amet at consectetuer lorem. Commodo no erat enim sit et. Ipsum et eu ea duis. Et ipsum sed sed sea. Gubergren elitr eos sit facilisis nulla diam no blandit dolor dolore rebum ea gubergren sed. At et kasd sed feugait dolor. Nonumy stet justo magna. Zzril sit ipsum sadipscing et ut sadipscing diam voluptua.
More Sample Output H2
Ipsum blandit sea no eirmod nonummy labore dolor tempor nostrud dolor feugiat nulla delenit aliquyam option. Sed labore voluptua lorem autem. Sanctus volutpat diam magna dolor kasd gubergren duo lorem no eirmod exerci sed consequat et diam. Velit elitr amet no stet in sit nibh invidunt nulla labore lorem et sanctus. Est sed erat eum ea lorem invidunt invidunt ipsum clita eu esse suscipit diam volutpat clita eirmod sed. Facilisi kasd ipsum kasd lorem aliquyam sadipscing dignissim kasd diam amet ut magna accusam sit ipsum amet eos. Volutpat diam ex takimata sed zzril et zzril quis hendrerit dolores iriure sit velit ea ipsum aliquyam invidunt clita. Praesent et erat.
Ipsum diam commodo dolores no accusam vel. Stet kasd aliquyam sea lorem kasd adipiscing ea ipsum nobis dolore doming mazim lorem iriure dolor et. Duo eirmod sadipscing elitr amet lorem at no nonumy molestie nisl lorem sit blandit option vulputate labore sadipscing eos. No et sit ea eirmod possim diam. At lorem et dolor duis sadipscing ipsum sit et dolor. Magna luptatum rebum et dolor aliquyam lorem sit consectetuer amet dolor accusam sit. Dolor ut diam kasd. Lorem sanctus ut diam labore eos est. Amet sed aliquyam ea consetetur stet nulla elitr at consetetur nobis lorem qui hendrerit. Amet soluta vero erat magna sanctus rebum commodo voluptua lobortis nobis amet sed facilisis nonumy magna duo. Sed magna feugait praesent clita eros voluptua iriure.
Sample Output H3
Diam consetetur stet gubergren consequat praesent. Sadipscing diam amet sed sed tempor at lorem lorem in nostrud ipsum duis ut rebum labore. Laoreet elitr nihil dolores sed veniam volutpat et. Elitr justo luptatum elitr placerat dolores diam. Minim ipsum vero magna tempor sadipscing ut clita erat lorem augue. Tempor magna dolore diam takimata ipsum sed est duo justo. Suscipit dolor stet eum nonumy eirmod in invidunt clita et sit vulputate duis gubergren. Sit lorem stet tempor clita magna eos dolor et invidunt tempor dolore labore nonumy gubergren lobortis feugait.
Labore duo in eum sit. Et vel et et tempor invidunt accusam. Lorem duis voluptua sed et. Ex adipiscing sanctus velit erat duo vel sanctus sit dolor consequat at diam sanctus gubergren ut amet tempor dolores. Nulla duo odio vero invidunt. Et vero delenit facilisi praesent minim autem vulputate vero elit clita lorem dolor sed sea minim. Duo nonumy elit erat lorem sanctus et liber sanctus.
Sample Output H4
Dolores eos rebum kasd justo erat dolor suscipit sadipscing sea sit dolores aliquyam. Ex kasd eos sed duo nonumy cum elitr dolor nisl labore et accusam sit blandit ea. Imperdiet lorem sea eos sadipscing dignissim aliquyam ut diam voluptua molestie et consetetur soluta et duis gubergren duis consetetur. Wisi eirmod ut et euismod vel at illum ad sed dolores est eum. Eirmod kasd eos stet sea nostrud consetetur est sed rebum et diam.
Vel ullamcorper iriure dolor. Accusam suscipit no odio ut ad et. Duo lorem enim. Diam diam accusam augue kasd elitr ipsum no. Sit tation sadipscing et dolores tempor eos ut et ipsum iriure. Et et amet autem vero amet ea erat volutpat feugait lorem aliquyam et ipsum. Magna takimata ipsum dolore commodo exerci eirmod sit amet et duis sed eu sanctus. Sit ipsum tempor gubergren ea et et ea odio tempor dolores magna tempor hendrerit. Stet blandit eu gubergren ipsum lorem kasd accusam magna nisl erat.
Sample Output H4
Eu et sadipscing ut vero et no et elitr stet lorem diam duis elitr aliquyam tincidunt diam rebum. Sit dolor ipsum ea sea blandit dolor aliquyam ipsum dolore vulputate dolor magna vel ea. Magna sit magna vero lorem molestie dolore lorem nam consetetur et labore kasd velit. Blandit elitr augue sadipscing esse nibh gubergren justo dolore lorem invidunt. Commodo amet sadipscing ipsum.
Sed adipiscing eos ea in. Facilisis tempor lorem eros rebum augue duis justo dolores dolores eos. Eos velit diam nisl dolor ea delenit velit ipsum id praesent. Ipsum feugait clita et accusam sit elitr duo consequat ut dolore vel elit et est iusto dolor et. Stet quis sit dolore tempor eos ipsum amet nulla invidunt sit no invidunt ipsum dolor stet eos et. Ipsum et gubergren eirmod et nam sed gubergren voluptua et erat sed amet ipsum accusam possim. Sit aliquyam vero autem velit sanctus soluta luptatum ut et clita et. Hendrerit et tempor veniam invidunt sea ipsum no et eos enim dolore.
Sample Output H3
Erat consetetur amet accumsan dolore stet lobortis kasd sadipscing amet congue nonummy sadipscing et nisl nonumy magna aliquyam. Tation amet dolor velit takimata et rebum lorem ipsum et sed no amet no ad vero. Labore consectetuer nihil ipsum diam nonummy eos at stet eos ipsum amet ipsum. Vero ea est commodo nulla ea in veniam at ipsum amet suscipit consequat ipsum ut. Laoreet dolore invidunt et est delenit ad vero ipsum et ut dolores vel consetetur. Elitr erat rebum vel ullamcorper clita euismod eos exerci labore dolor. Sed sea ipsum voluptua accusam sanctus consequat sit voluptua gubergren lobortis kasd rebum. No duo invidunt kasd et duo sit esse et. Molestie eos amet tempor sit molestie at et dolore invidunt et dolores.
Praesent clita consetetur. Sadipscing magna et dignissim illum et magna iusto eirmod dolor clita vero dolore facer eirmod et ut dolores. Rebum est ex ea accusam aliquyam sed lorem dolor eos diam in gubergren vero ipsum ad eirmod dolor dolores. Justo nonumy ut ea zzril dolore sea. Dolore aliquyam et iusto ea sit ipsum eirmod accumsan sit esse placerat et takimata dolor illum. Dolore sit amet autem diam illum justo sed euismod iusto at zzril lorem lorem. Accusam te et duo amet duo no gubergren no.
Sample Output H4
Erat sit eum dolores. Invidunt suscipit duo amet qui ut iusto est stet ipsum ea. Stet vero vulputate accusam consectetuer accusam et aliquyam gubergren. Molestie aliquyam stet elitr in erat nonumy clita duo autem vero sed eirmod takimata ut est ipsum stet tempor. Lorem aliquyam molestie illum wisi lorem exerci velit. Aliquyam vero odio. Ipsum vero tempor magna diam invidunt est commodo aliquip ut praesent stet eirmod dolore sed esse amet. Sea sadipscing elit aliquyam eirmod te clita id tempor gubergren volutpat at nonumy accumsan takimata invidunt ut illum dolor. Hendrerit sadipscing dolore gubergren. Amet invidunt et diam duo at sit elitr sea et duis in. Justo sit in et amet amet.
Dolor elitr takimata ipsum duo rebum vulputate et nobis ea gubergren. Ut sadipscing dolore mazim dolores justo ut volutpat. Magna feugait diam augue. Rebum dignissim lorem suscipit consetetur eirmod erat amet ea consetetur stet et amet gubergren. Et vero ut invidunt et dolore voluptua iusto sit et.
Sample Output H4
Nonumy hendrerit ea et ipsum. Sanctus sit et consequat sit odio laoreet iriure eum sed eum. Voluptua et sea eirmod rebum facilisis iriure elitr clita erat. Rebum exerci ipsum stet diam. Labore sit dolor elit et consetetur te. Dolor sed enim eu sanctus et ipsum voluptua. Nonumy kasd dolore takimata in et at est duis exerci sit ipsum sed. Takimata doming voluptua eum sed invidunt amet kasd at vel dolor illum ipsum. Gubergren vulputate sadipscing. Eirmod eos ea sit at dolore diam sanctus.
Lorem amet dolore quis invidunt ipsum nisl. Rebum diam lorem diam facer erat invidunt eos adipiscing erat ullamcorper dolor amet sanctus labore nisl rebum est te. Et duo rebum dolor duo dolor takimata quod lorem sed takimata amet at et clita et est. Nobis ut aliquip nobis diam dolore consequat tempor illum ipsum luptatum eros option ea kasd aliquip dolores erat. Duo euismod hendrerit. Tation in et sed delenit euismod.